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Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
THE GAME OF FAN TAN.
why q Chinese Ex-MandarlA Thinks II
Should BE Encouraged.

why q Chinese Ex-MandarlA Thinks 1t
Should Be Encouraged.
The police will keep ON hurting China
mems feelings as long as there is fan tan
playing. The Cinnamon will keep on
playing fan tan so long as there is money
in it. The latter have become used to
paying expensive hotel bills for second
class lodgings at the Tombs, and the for
mer are gradually being initiated into the
mysteries of that fascinating game that
made All Sin so famous the world over.
l will bet "half of the fiowery kingdom"
that All Sin will come out the first best in
this interesting contest-that he will even
tually convert the police of the metropolis
to the belief that fan tan playing is mo-
rally and religiously correct and its sup
preston cruel and outrageous wrong.
In the first place, fan tan playing is
born into the Chinaman; therefore, it
must be religiously carried out. Lock up
the fan tan players, chain them with
heavy chains, gag and blindfold them,
place half a dozen millstones upon their
necks, give them nothing but water and
tea to eat--they will bet with their fingers
or toes in the dark cells, just as if nothing
he'd happened.
A Chinaman believes he can never 60 to
heaven unless he can play the fan tan
properly. Those Cinnamon who do not
play refrain because they are not particu-
larry anxious to enter into The happy land
of TIC good Mongolians. Besides, what's
the Use of stopping fan tan playing? 1t
will keep the heathcns from doing any
thing wrong toward the Christians, at
least while they are playing fan tan. 1t
will save lots of shirts being torn into
fragments for the time being. 1t will
save lots of beers and whiskies in the
saloons for the more worthy sons of toll.
There would be more room left upon the
sidewalks for more civilized people to
utilize Not only this but it is really the
only way to get these heathens to leave
some of their boarded wealth in this
glorious land of the free and of the brave.
There are always two great certainties in
this peculiar fan tan business. At every
game some one has got to lose and some
one has got to win.
The winner as rule will treat. Some
times whole gang of them will adjourn
to the nearest second class restaurant
about the Fourth ward to have one solid
If not wholesale meal at the expense Of
the lucky fan tan player. That money
may have gone directly Chinaward had it
not been for that wise game of fan tan in
Mott street. The good fan tan player is
also IN inveterate fried oyster flend, " he
eats it as if he intended to stay here.
The paper man and the printers would
have been left entirely in the cold had it
not been for the godly fan tan players,
who buy their committees boxes of play
ing cards weekly for ''pokees' and other
civilized games. In fact to make the
story brief, the fan tan players are luxuri-
ous heathens. They live upon the fat Of
the land. Therefore they naturally leave
more money here than the wicked and in.
dustrious laundrymen, who earn lots OF
money and spend nothing Let US have
more fan tan shops, it is profitable for the
country. No more laundries.-WOng
Chin Foo in New York World.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO May
Following were the quotations on the board Of
trade to-day: Wheat-No 2 May. opened &c
bid, closed s334c; june, opened s614c, closed
S55sc; July, opened S514c, closed s434-zsc. Com
No. 2 May, opened and closed 8s16c bid. June,
opened 3ps4c, closed s95sc July opened 4fss-16c.
closed 4I145sc Oats-No. 2 May, opened 261Sc
bid, closed 261zc nominal june, opened 27zkc,
closed 27sxc; July opened 2s11c,, closed 2s-iac.
PORK May. opened and closed $3.50 nominal;
June, opened and closed $3.50 nominal Lard
May opened $3.50 nominal closed ses21x
nominal. 80
Live stock-The Union stock yards report the
following range Of prices: Hogs--M Market opened
only moderately active and weak; light grades &c
lower; others unchanged; light grades, $500
5s25, rough packing, ssoo05.2o; heavy pack
ing and shipping lots $5200555. Cattle
Market steady; bceves sA0O05.oO; cows $4,000
400; stockers, 81 $50 40 Sheep Market steady;
shorn, $35004.25 wooded, S400050o NJ
Produce Butter-Fancy EIgin creamery, &c
per lib; choice to fancy dairy, 10000. Eggs
strictly fresh, io1a lie per doz Poultry Chick
ems, s1S@sc per ID; ROSTERS &c; turkeys, S0foc;
ducks, 901Oc; spring chickens 100000 per
doz, according to size. Potatoes In car lots on
track: Burbanks s00s5c. per bu, Early Rose.
SO0s5c. Apples-Fair TO good, $350@40O per
Dbl
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
A Room for the TrOmbOne,

Berlioz thus ''caps'' for the trombone.
1t possesses, he says, "nObleness and gran
deur;" it chants, laments and occasionally
betrays "a religious accent, calm and i'm
posing" and not seldom has an "cxpres-
sion of heroic pomp of loftiness." And he
is speaking of the regular, every evening
trombones, too. You wouldn't think it
possessed all the above attachments to
look at it in the corner of the orchestra
and hear its steady ''oom-pas'' in the loud
work, although to hear it being practiced
in the same house you would readily be-
lieve that there was more in it than you
even thought. York Clipper
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
To Purify Muddy Water.

MY clerk has made a. useful discovery
In regard to refining the muddy water
that the city has been furnishing. He
takes the muddy water and pours in a few
drops of ferric chloride. This he allows
10 filter through cotton placed at the bot
tom of O funnel. The result is water clear
as crystal, with no faint of iron, and
moreover soft. AS ferric chloride can be
had for q song, this is the cheapest way
that know Of purifying water. There Is
an old woman's way of using almond
shells, but that requires time and fills the
water with the shells. --Globe- Democrat.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
The Russian Empress Life.

The Russian empress leads an active
and simple life. She rises early and
walks great deal; goes to bed late, reads
enormously, and, although she loves dress
and dancing passionately, she busies her.
self at the proper times with works of
charity. During the holidays she does
not change her habits except by the dis
tribution of aims and long sessions at
church, which are more frequent than
Tribune
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
London BergarE.

The inventive faculty and originality of
London beggars generally, and of blind
London beggars in particular, are SO feebly
developed that new departure made by
blind aims seeker of advanced age is
worthy of notice. He had on the card he
wore plastered to his chest the words:
"Please bestow a glance and copper on
one who can return neither. "-Chicaeo
Times
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Murdered by His Wife.

GREENsBURG, Ind, May John Fromer,
a well-known and respected citizens of this
place, was shot and almost instantly killed by
his wife, about O'Clock Saturday morning.
The couple had been separated for some time
The woman says God told her to kill her hus-
band -
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

The park commissioners in Baltimore nave
inst adopted a set Of rules forbidding huSglng
and kissing in the parks OF that city, under q
fine of from IS to $:'5.
An assignment has been made by the St
Louis Supplies company, which has done bus
mess at st. Louis for twenty years. The to-
al liabilities are placed at $l47 900.
A landslide Wednesday night buried six
ars and the locomotive of freight train at
Cliff Cave, Mo. Two men were killed, and
trains were delayed twenty-four hours.
A nephew of Cardinal Manning has been
victimizing society people i'll San Francisco
He was perfect gentleman" and borrowed
iewelry-watches and diamond rings-from
the young ladies, which he forgot to return.
President Cleveland has appointed Martin
]. Russell, of Illinois, and j. p. Thorne, OF
MARYLAND, to be members of the board of visi-
tors of the military academy at West Point,
in place of Gen. Palmer and Mr.. Gwinn, Of
Maryland, declined.
The birthday of George W. Childs occurs
on May IL. Last year Mr.. Childs and Mr..
Drexel united in a gift of 600 to the In
ternational Typographical union. The jour
neymen printers east of the Mississippi river
will therefore celebrate the 18th of May by
presenting individual contributions to. the
fund thus started.
Joseph Compton, of st. Clair county, Ala
baala, a member of the state legislature, who
has led an exemplary life for dozen years,
has suddenly disappeared. He was recently
recognized as an escaped convict from the
North Carolina penitentiary, having been
sentenced for twenty four years for killing q
revenue officer. Hearing that officers were
80. -. - lin, Compton took to the woods and
has not been seen since.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Ijncofn,s IRON Wedge.

A rusty iron wedge, with the initials
"a, LIZ rudety stamped upon it, was re-
Gently found in an ancient house near Old
Salem. It has been recognized by former
COMPANIONS of Abe Lincoln as the famous
wedge which he used in splitting rails in
that vicinity. The initials were made by
Lincoln himself, in the presence of ]. @.
Spears, now a resident of Talula. Boston
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Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

The beaver, which before the war was
pretty well driven out of the southern
states, appears to be returning, showing
that the negroes are not such keen and
Industrious hunters as the whites, and the
latter have not the leisure to give to field
sports as formerly. The fur of the south
ern beaver is inferior. - Chicago Times.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

MONTREAL, Can, May 9.-The French
press, without regard to politics, is unani-
nous in denouncing Mr.. William O'Briens
proposed visit to Canada to agitate the re-
moval of Lord Lansdowne. This unanimity
of opinion is somewhat surprising, unless,
indeed, they have received instructions from
the church "sr p
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Cladstone's Motion Defeated.

LONDON, May 9.-Gladstone's motion that
the charges of The Times against Dillon be re-
ferred to committee was defeated in the
commons Friday night-317 to 233-and
Clarkes motion that The Times charges do
not constitute breach Of the privileges of the
house was adopted Dillon intinated that he
would take no further notice of the charges
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
A Monument to Arthur,

NEW YORK, May 9.-At meeting of gen.
tlemen interested in the erection of statue
to ex-President Arthur, held in this city Fri
day, committee was appointed to arrange
for site, receive subscriptions, etc. Among
the prominent gentlemen on the committee
are William W. Aston, August Belmont, An
drew Carnegie, Chauncey NJ DePew, Charles
A Dana, H. o. Armour, William N. Evarts,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Pierre Lorillard, Arson
G. McCook, George W. Jones, Whitelaw
Reid, and Cornelius Bliss. 1t was announced
by Chairman Bliss that the monument would
cost between s25, 600 and $4,000.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

elbow ever do you manage to find what
you want when you keep your things in
such disorderY' asked man of an editor
whose manuscripts were lying around in
confusion.
"Easy enough" replied the editor.
"Whenever want certain article / Just
take the bottom of the pile. New York
Sun,
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
They Were Not Executed.

New YORK, May ga st. Louis dispatch
to The World says that the report of the ex-
ecution of three Mexican officers at Guaymas,
Mex, for Illegal acts across the American
line, is unfounded. Trustworthy information
announces that the officers have been re-
suitad
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Nearly 5000 Immigrants.

NEW YORK, May 9.-At Castle Garden
Friday morning there were landed a, 1913 i'm
migrants, the largest number in any day in
years Three other steamships arriving with
immigrants had to keep them on board over
night as the force at the garden could not
handle them I
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Plans of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

OTTAWA, Can, May 9.-It Is understood
that the Canadian Pacific railway has com
cluded a satisfactory southeastern outlet IN
Boston by way of the Southeastern railway
and the Boston & Maine with its leased lines.
The Canadian, syndicate win also put on a
line of boats between Port Arthur, Cam, and
Chicago, in order to compete for all classes Of
Pacific coast freights. The rate they will in
this way be able to makeis calculated to be at
least IS per cent. lower than by the American
limos .zas
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, May .9.-Frorn a Chi
cago, Kansas & Nebraska official it Is learned
the road win build branch from Giiead, -
point fourteen miles west OF Fairbury, Nep,
to Hastings Neb. To prevent any knowledge
Of the company's intentions the entire route
was surveyed by moonlight.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
A Singular Judicial Proceeding.

MOUNT STERLING, KY, May al. J. Cor
nelson, the man who assaulted Judge Richard
Reid and was sentenced to three years in jail,
the sentence having been sustained in the
court of last resort, has been released on
writ of habeas corpus by Squire STOPPER The
trial of the writ was secret, no notice was
given to the county attorney, and the circuit
and county judges were in Louisville attend
ing the state convention. Cornelison attacked
Judge Reid for the purpose of provoking him
to duel. The judge refused to challenge
him, but the affair so weighed on his mind
that he committed suicide
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

A half pint of water from the Croton
aqueduct, New York, contains, according
to the assertion of an eminent physician,
5S, 900 bacteria.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
COMMISSIONER scAooNMAKER.
PittsburS Business Men Pour Complaints
Into His Ear.

Into HIS Ear.
PITTsBURG, Pa, May 9.-Judge Augustus
Schoonmaker, of the interstate commerce
commission. was in the city Saturday morn
ing. en- route to his home in New York. Judge
Schoonmaker stated that the commission had
concluded its work in the south last Thursday
While in Memphis the commission had taken
700 pages of testimony embracing allsouthern
roads The preponderance of this testimony,
he said, favored continuance of the suspen-
sion of the short haul clause. The members
of the commission have all gone to their
homes, but will meet again in Washington on
the 10Th inst.
Commissioner Walker, of Vermont, was re-
ported quite i'll Judge SchOonmaker said
further that the complaints of the Pacific
coast people were not well founded; that
fruits could be shipped to the east at rates as
advantageous as before the passage Of the
interstate commerce bill
While at the depot Judge Shoemaker was
surrounded by business men, who poured COM
plants into his ears and freely rendered him
advice
Suspension of the Fourth Section.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 9.-The interstate
commerce commission has returned here
strongly impressed with the belief that they
will find it necessary to suspend the fourth
section of the law indefinitely.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May paul Grottkau,
the notorious Socialist leader, was sentenced
to one year in the house of correction Satur-
day morning, for participating in last Mays
riofe
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
British Detectives in St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, M, May cit was ascertained
Friday night from reliable source that half
a dozen British detectives have been in this
city for two weeks, shadowing parties who
left London some time ago, and who are sup
posed b be connected with violent measures
against the British government. Four of the
detectives left Friday morning for Kansas
City, where the suspects are now located. 1t
is declared by well posted Englshmen here
that large number of British agents have
arrived in this country for the purpose of es-
timating the strength and character Of the
Irish National league, and also to keep a
sharp watch for any outbreaks that may be
plotted in this country during the queens
Jubilee .--
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

ANnHTN to be made. Cut this out and
MIIMkN return to US, and we will send
WIIVI you free, something Of great
istS"1t value and Importance to you,
that will start you in business which will
bring you IN more money right away than
anything else in this world. Any one can do
the work and live at home. Either sex; all
ages. Something new that just coins money
for all workers. We will start you; capital
not needed. This is one Of the genuine, i'm
portant chances of lifetime. Those who
are ambitious and enterprising will not de.
lay. Grand outfit free. Address TRUE d
CO., Augusta, Maine. dec1-sS
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Contracts Awarded.

SANDUsKY, Ohio, May 9.-Contracts for
buildings for the Ohio Soldiers home near
this city, aggregating S15O,OOO, were awarded
Friday by the board of trustees Dawson &
Anderson, of Toledo, get five cottages for
5000; Doerzbach & Decker, of Sandusky,
get the other buildings for s37 goo; Kelly,
Jones & Co., of Pittsburg, get the steam
heating for s31, GOO; the Sandusky Gas COM
pany gets the plumbing, gas-ftting, and sew
ers for $4,000. The work is to be done by
January. 1888
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Fled to Parts Unknown.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May On. NJ Will
Jams, probably the largest retail grocer in the
city, has skipped out for parts unknown. He
leaves an Indebtedness Of upwards OF SIS, co.
He bought on credit and sold for cash at
lower rates than others could buy; frequently
his daily sales amounting to $1,000, and up
ward as high as 81, 800. Last Saturday night
his establishment was mysteriously set fire to,
and when the insurance companies began an
investigation Williams left town He leaves
a large number of creditors here and in the
larger cities mourning his departure. ~ q
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Messenger FotherinSham Strikes Back.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 9-Express Messenger
Fotheringham has sued the Adams Express
company, Camden and Pihkerton for 800, 600
damages for false arrest and imprisonment
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

Cornelius Vanderbilt's four sons are tbe
editors, proprietors, printers and pub
fishers of lively amateur paper called
The Comet
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
TO and FRO" The Northwest !
TICKET OFFICES:

TICKET OFFICES:
CHICAGO-205 Clark St.
Depot, Cor. Polk st. and 5th Ave
Palmer House.
Grand Pacific Hotel
fremont House
MILWAUKEE-395 Broadway.
New Passenger Station.
ST. PAUL-173 East Third Street.
Union Depot.
MINNEAPOLIE-19 Nicollet House Block.
Union Depot.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Journalistic.

DETROIT, Mich, May 9.-Mr. William II.
Brearley, manager of the advertising depart
ment of The Evening News ever since the es-
tablishment of that paper in 1878, has bought
The Detroit Evening Journal Mr.. Brearley
has had sixteen years connection with De-
troit newspapers, and is a pushing, ener-
getic business man, who will spare no effort
to push The Journal to the front
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

Munkacsy gave great banquet in Paris
when he heard that Wanamaker had
bought his 'sChrist Before Pilate.n
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

NEW YORK, May 9.-The building trades
have decided to make determined fight for
the nine-hour system, and have been prom
ised the support of the Central Labor union
and assembly 40, knights OF Labor. After
juno they will not handle any material manu-
factt,red in factories where the men work
over nine hours per day, and win also refuse
TO handle material brought from remote
places where it is impossible to tell whether
the producers observe the nine-hour rule or
,rf
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Death of an Indian Chief.

LocKPoRT, N. Y, May John Nc
Pleasant, chief of the Tuscarora Indians, died
Friday afternoon on the reservation, M the
town of Lewiston, Niagara county, at the age
of - years He was chief of his tribe when
only II years old. He was twice married, his
second wife having been Catherine Parker, of
the Leneca's, who was a sister Of Gen. Eli
Parker, Indian commissioner during part Of
President Grants administration.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
SHUT OUT FROM THE WORLD.
The Province of New Brunswick Seriously
AffactRsl Inv ErashRfs.


Affected by Freshets.
ST. JOHNS, N. B., May 9-Not since 1854
has this province. suffered so disastrously by
freShets as this spring The wharves at the
boat landings in Portland are under water,
the streets fronting ON the river have ell been
inundated and many firms have been obliged
to suspend business All the mills in the inn
mediate vicinity and in the harbor have been
obliged to close, except two, and several
hundred hands are thrown out Of employ
ment. But tho most serious effects are along
the river and at Fredericton. The hcois
have extended at some points far inland, and
the river Friday was rising one-half an inch
an hour, passing the highest point yet reached.
If it continues to advance at the same rate as
during the past twenty -four hours, Frederick
ton will he completely submerged. There
are some wash-outs on the northern division
of the New Brunswick railway caused by the
rise in the river and tributary streams, and it
is not likely the line will escape an Interrupt
tion to traffic The people of this city are
virtually shut out from the world There has
not been a mail from Boston since Sunday
last,
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
Ouarreled About Their NIustaches.

LANCASTER, Ohio, May 9.-George Stein
was lodged in Jail here Friday morning
charged with cuttin, with intent to kill. The
affair occurred in the village of StoutSville.
Stein and another young man were diSputing
about the relative sizes of their mustacheS,
and finally came to blows. Green's father
came up while the bovs were struggling and
attempted to strike Stein, when the latter
whipped out knife and plunged it into the
mans side and abdomen several times, infiict-
ing horrible and probably fatal wounds
Green's entraiIs protruded from cash in the
stomach, and he was carried TO his home III an
unconscious state Stein fled, but was ar
rested in Circleville and brought to this city,
where he awaits the action of the grand jury.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11
A WISH.
Would that once more we might meet, thou and

Who SO long parted are-upon shore
Where tireess waves are striving evermore
Their, to-where circlng curlews mournful cry;
just thou and 1.-two figures pausing lone
All solitary meath the silent sky,
That grief might speak and great tears flood the
eye,
And naught but nature hear the long pent moan.
There, to the accompaniment of the sea,
With voices shrill with pain our woes we'd tell
Till wind and wave with our lament would swell,
Would blend in one vast chord OF agony.
For but one balm remains to thee and me
To ease our hurts-a common sympathy.
Ada Iddings Gale in The Current.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

NEW YORK, May 9.-Among the paSscn-
gers on the Adriatic which reached this port
Friday was Mr.. Peter White, Of Dublin. Mr..
White represents an Irish manufacturing
company, of which Mr.. Michael Davitt is the
president, and he brings with him a letter of
Recommendation from Mr. Davitt, dated from
Land League Cottage" Bally Brack, County
Dublin The chief object of the company is
to develop the industries Of Ireland by open
ing up the markets for Irish manufacturers,
aud by means of its capital-S590 ,oOo-to in
crease their output and give additional EN-
ployment. DR.. White, will, after having
made arrangements for the representation of
the.companyi II this city 60 to Boston, Mon
treal, Toronto, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincin-
natl, Pitsburg, Washington, and Philadel-
phi;L The scheme has the approval of Mr..
Parnell and the prominent National leaders.
Morris tribune., 1887-05-11

PARIS, May Cardinal Gibbons is still
travelling in the provinces studying the labor
question. He has found what he pronounces
the ideal organization for wage-workers in the
Catholic Working1nens clubs, founded by
Comte Albert de Nun and Mgr. Freppel. All
the trades are represented in each club, and
both employers and employed belong to them.
They are under the general supervision Of the
ecclesiastical authorities in the towns where
they are situated, and all questions as to hours
and wages are discussed in friendly spirit.
Cardinal Gibbons would like to see these clubs
established in the United States. There are
500 of them in France